Johannes Herold

Johannes Herold
Bornc. 1550
Jena, Germany
Died8 September 1603
Weimar, Germany
OccupationComposer
EraRenaissance
Notable workHistoria des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn und Heylandts Jesu Christi (1594)
StyleRenaissance sacred music

Johannes Heroldt (around 1550 in Jena - September 8, 1603 in Weimar) was a German composer best known for his six-part St Matthew Passion composed at Klagenfurt in 1594.[1][2][3]

Works, editions and recordings

  • "Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn und Heylandts Jesu Christi aus dem hlg. Evangelio Mattheo", mit 6 Stimmen componirt; Grätz in Steyer bei Georg Widmannstetter, 1594, Graz 1594; edition Hans Joachim Moser - 1955
  • Historia, with Joachim a Burck Johannespassion and Christoph Demantius Passion. recorded by Michel Laplénie, Erato 1990
  • Historia, with Teodoro Clinio Passio secundum Joannem - recorded by Ensemble Triagonale, Michael Paumgarten CPO, 2015

References

  1. ^ Etudes - Volume 372 1901 - Page 861 " Histoire de la Passion et de la mort de NS (1594) de Johannes Herold (1550-1603), dont le livret emprunte aux quatre évangiles pour culminer sur les sept paroles de Jésus en croix, et le ... "
  2. ^ Howard E. Smither A History of the Oratorio: The oratoria in the baroque ... 0807812943 - 1977 - Page 8 "... of the Passion and Suffering of Our One Redeemer and Savior Jesus Christ," 1594). :1 Other through-composed historiae are those by Joachim a Burck (1568),11 Johann Steurlin (1576), Johann Machold (1593), Johannes Herold (1594), ...
  3. ^ Basil Smallman, The Background of Passion Music (1970), p. 143: "fairly frequently in Passion music; yet to the present author's knowledge there is only one surviving instance. This occurs in the six-part St Matthew Passion by Johannes Herold which was composed at Klagenfurt in 1594"